AOMEI Partition Assistant is a great SD card clone tool which can help you to clone SD card to larger SD card in Windows 7/8/10. Also, it can clone SD card to internal hard drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive. And there is no risk of data loss during the cloning process. AOMEI Partition Assistant gives you two methods of SD card cloning, including Copy Disk Quickly and Sector by Sector Copy. One of the few Macrium restrictions is it does not clone sd cards. A good and easy tool to do this is win32diskimager. You just select source, and target an run it. Speed does not matter. Insert the SD card into your computer. Start up Win32DiskImager, a program that you probably have from when you first set up your Pi. (If you're on OS X or Linux, you'll have to use the dd command as described here instead of these steps). In the 'Image File' box, enter the path of your soon-to-be image file. If you are a fan of Linux and want to clone your Pi SD card using some command lines, then follow the process below: 1) Open the command terminal and enter ‘sudo fdisk –l.’. 2) Look for your memory card name indicating with a little less memory space than originally. 3) Now, enter the command. There are many cloning software in the market. And AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard should be the best free SD card clone software for Windows 10/8/7 users. It allows you to copy SD card to another device such as an internal/external hard drive, a USB flash drive, or a new SD card, etc. Upgrade SD card with the free SD card cloning software.
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SD card got broken? The capacity of the SD card is wearing out? You decide to get a new SD card but want the data in original SD card come with you. So, how to quickly transfer all data to the new SD card? Clone the SD card to a new one with methods here!Content
SD card, a small, portable digital storage card, can be used to expand the storage capacity of phones and cameras. Pictures, music, videos and other data can be saved in it.
Doubtlessly, the storage capacity will be run out as the data is growing in the SD card. At this time, we will consider to change a new SD card with larger capacities. In addition, you will change the card when it is broken or the lifespan is nearly over. Then, the data in the SD card should be cloned to the new one.
1. Directly Clone in Windows (Not Compatible with Hidden/Locked Files in SD Card)
This most convenient way, of course, is to directly copy and paste the files in Windows. This method is suitable for the SD card without too many files, especially without hidden pr locked files.
① Connect the SD cards to the computer. Open the old SD card and select all files (Ctrl+A), then right-click to select [Copy].
② Right-click and select [Paste] at the new SD card. Then the data will be cloned to the new one.
Note!1. Some cards, used in phones and the other important devices, may contain hidden, locked and encrypted files. These files cannot be manually selected in Windows.
2. If there are many files in the SD card, it will take a long time to copy them. To save the time, you can use Renee Becca to clone the SD card. See the next part.
The process that Windows is copying and pasting files will pass through many unnecessary steps, such as modifying the file system catalog and building index. If you want to copy about 3,000 files, it probably takes half of a day in Windows.Yet, Renee Becca can quickly copy files sector by sector. All hidden, locked and encrypted files can be included.
2. Clone with Renee Becca (Compatible with Hidden/Locked Files in SD Card)
Renee Becca is a professional, reliable backup and recovery software. The three functions (backup, restore and clone), supports various storage devices and file types. Only by simple steps can we back up, recover and clone data in the system, partitions and folders.
Renee Becca can automatically analyze the data differences between the original files and the backup files and only backup the increment/differential files, which can greatly save the disk space. If the system breaks down, Renee Becca can recover data with a rescue CD under the non-Windows circumstance.
Professional Data Backup & Restore Software - Renee BeccaProvides multiple functions like backup, restore, clone, system migration.
Clone all data (including system) in HDD to smaller SSD or larger HDD. Disk could boot PC after clone finished.
Supports to migrate Windows to SSD with a few clicks.
4K alignment will be processed when clone disk, migrate system, restore disk or system.
Backup & restore system/disk/folder. Auto backup plans are available.
Provides functions like backup, restore, clone, system migration.
Clone all data (including system) in HDD to smaller SSD or larger HDD.
Backup & restore system/disk/folder. Auto backup plans are available.
Compatible with: Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2012(32bit/64bit) / Server 2008
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If you've ever turned a Raspberry Pi into a media center or retro gaming station, you know how frustrating it can be when it crashes and corrupts your SD card. Here's a little trick to making that a little less painful.
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The Raspberry Pi is a finicky little device. There was a period of time where my Raspberry Pi media center had a lot of trouble—every once in awhile, it would freeze or crash, requiring me to unplug it to get it going again, which would corrupt the SD card. While the problem was caused by a bad power supply, it took me awhile to diagnose, and it was really annoying to have to set up the Pi from scratch every time this happened.
So, I came up with an idea: After installing XBMC and getting everything set up just the way I want it, I'd clone my SD card. That way, if and when it crashed next, I could just copy my all-set-up image back to the SD card, put it in the Pi, and be up and running again in minutes instead of hours. I highly recommend everyone do this to the SD card for their Pi, no matter what you're using it for. It'll make your life a lot easier.
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Cloning the SD card is simple. Just follow these steps:
- Get everything set up just the way you want it on your Raspberry Pi, whatever you're using it for. Then shut down the Pi and remove the SD card. Insert the SD card into your computer.
- Start up Win32DiskImager, a program that you probably have from when you first set up your Pi. (If you're on OS X or Linux, you'll have to use the dd command as described here instead of these steps).
- In the 'Image File' box, enter the path of your soon-to-be image file. For example, I put mine in
C:UsersWhitsonimagesmyraspbmc.img
- Under the 'Device' box, select your SD card.
- Click the 'Read' button to create the image file from your card.
- When it's done creating the image file, you can eject your SD card and put it back in your Raspberry Pi. Keep that IMG file in a safe place.
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Now, if anything ever goes wrong with your Pi, you can restore your fully-set-up image using the reverse instructions:
- Insert the SD card back into your computer.
- Head to the start menu or screen and type 'disk management.' Open the disk management program and find your SD card in the list.
- Right-click and delete all the partitions on your SD card. When it's empty, right-click on it and format it (it doesn't matter what filesystem you format it to, your computer just needs to recognize it).
- Open Win32DiskImager again and browse for your image file. Select your device from the Device dropdown just as you did before.
- This time, click 'Write' to write the image to the SD card.
- When it finishes, eject the SD card and re-insert it into your Raspberry Pi. When you boot it up, it should be in the exact same state it was in when you first cloned the SD card.
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Once you've done this, setting up your Pi from scratch will be a whole lot simpler! Transformers armada episode 37.
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